I have notice, and it happens frequently, that people save webcam pics before having a look what is already been saved as the latest sighting on a webcam - often an "empty" view saved over an animal sighting. Last week there was a great sighting on the Orpen cam - Buffalo moving up for a rhino - just as the animals moved away someone saved an "empty" webcam shot - over this amazing webcam update - Same thing happened tonight again - elephant herd at Orpen and an "empty" view was saved again as latest update. I want to ask please, if we all could please try not to save "empty" webcam shots? Does anyone agree with me?

As you may see, this is something that keeps popping up, but in short:The problem is twofold, slow connections, and lag on putting down highlights. When you push 'Save as highlight' it's not that photo that gets saved, but the next!And if the connection you have is slow, well... Things can be gone already.

Best is to save the actual pic, and post it on the forums, then everyone can look through the days sightings. I for instance don't have the time to watch the cams, but happily browse the days topics.

Not posting much here anymore, but the photo's you can follow here There is plenty there.

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I can assure you that no forumite is intentionally saving blank highlights, and it is accidentally done by refreshing the page or pressing the highlight button just as the picture changes. I am guilty of such accidental acts, but it can sadly not be avoided.

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If you refresh the page after submitting any form on the web, the browser will alert you that it is going to send the info again and that is where the users need to pay attention. This can happen even when shopping online, so do not ignore these alerts! Select the "Cancel" option of the alert.

Or instead of refreshing the page after submitting a highlight, rather click on "Go" in the address bar. That way it will reload the page, without taking prior activity into consideration when reloading the page.

It would be so great if it was emphasised in BOLD writing, for viewers on the webcams, not to overwrite good sightings. There have been so many good sightings removed with arb sightings of webcams not working, etc.

I think you may be talking about the highlights at the bottom of the screen? If so this is a common occurance, and is not always malicious. Here is a quote from a thread talking about this problem (you can find the topic here)

Christy wrote:I inadvertently downloaded grass, twice in a matter of minutes, a couple of days ago. And yes, I did feel terrible about it. Fortunately warties and wildies appeared quite quickly and the situation was saved, much to my relief.

I clicked on "refresh" and a popup told me that the information would have to be resent and was this okay. I must admit to not thinking very carefully and clicked 'okay'. It was bad enough I did this once and I felt really bad when I did it the second time.

Hopefully this explains why this happens often (if I've made any sense at all)?

I know this is a very old topic but I am at my wits end!!! I submitted highlights by clicking on the yellow banner above the webcam picture. I thought I had learnt my lesson about posting empty water holes by actually closing the website after I have posted a picture and then going back into the site. However, I see that now two different pictures have been "posted" by me when I wasn't even on the site. Please someone tell me how not to get embarrassed when I see that I have posted empty waterholes and have 'over-posted' a good sighting.